- Foursquare Releases New Swarm App for iPhone
Foursquare has released Swarm, a new app for iPhone that lets you keep up and meet up with your friends.
With Swarm, you can easily see who’s out nearby and who wants to hang out later.
Features:
– Want to meet up with friends? Quickly open up the app to see who is out nearby.
– Want to share what you’re doing? Checking in is faster and more fun than ever.
– Got an idea for something fun to do? Easily message all of your nearby friends.
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - A Third of Smartphones Shipped Last Quarter Had a 5-Inch or Larger Display [Chart]
Shipments of smartphones with 5-inch or larger displays grew 369% last quarter reaching 34% of all smartphones sold, reports Canalys. That number is even higher in greater China (39%) and Asia Pacific (43%).
“This is still a market segment led by Samsung, but the trend is unmistakably toward larger-screen handsets at the high end of the market. It held a 44% share of devices with displays of 5″ and above, and 53% if the view is narrowed to look at 5.5″-plus displays,” said Canalys Analyst Jessica Kwee. “But many other vendors, such as Lenovo, Huawei, LG and Sony, have also achieved significant volumes in this space with products at the top end of their portfolios. Consumers now expect high-end devices to have large displays, and Apple’s absence in this market will clearly not last long. It is notable that 5″ and above displays featured on almost half (47%) of smart phones with an unlocked retail price of US$500 or more. Of the remaining 53% of high-end smart phones, 87% were iPhones. Apple plainly needs a larger-screen smart phone to remain competitive, and it will look to address this in the coming months.”
Apple is expected to release a 4.7-inch iPhone 6 as soon as August and follow that up with a 5.5-inch iPhone 6 as early as September.
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - Apple's Beats Acquisition Won't Be Finalized Until Next Week?
Last week it was reported that Apple would be purchasing Beats Music for $3.2 billion, and that the deal would be finalized sometime this week. However, today a new report claims that sources close to the transaction claim the deal may not be finalized until next week.
Apple’s planned deal to buy Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion may not be finalized until next week, according to people familiar with the transaction. That’s a longer timetable than some people expected as recently as a few days ago
Once the deal closes, Beats co-founders Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine will be joining Apple’s executive team and could even appear onstage at WWDC next month. There have been many theories thrown around as to why Apple wants to purchase Beats, but it seems we will have to wait a bit longer to see what Apple has up its sleeves.
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - 500px App Now Lets You Upload Multiple Photos at the Same Time
The 500px app has been updated with an improved interface for uploading, letting you upload multiple photos at once.
500px is an online platform for photographers to share their work and be inspired by their peers. Every month, millions of people visit 500px.com and our mobile apps to find the world’s most inspiring photography and learn techniques to develop their own skill and appreciation of the art.
Features:
– Stay up to date on your friends’ activity using our innovative Flow timeline.
– Explore the Popular, Editors’ Choice, Upcoming
– Tap on any photograph to see it in full-screen mode for an immersive viewing experience. Tap again to display details, comments or other activity on each photograph.
– Interact with the community by commenting on photos, liking them, or adding them to your favorites for later viewing.
– Learn more about your fellow 500px users by visiting their Profiles. You can see their photos and other 500px activity, as well as their contact info and even which photography gear they use.
– Sets! You can now see all the public sets that a user has created, in a beautiful mosaic-like layout. Sets can be found in a user’s profile. Sets are a way to group and present photos together.
– Get notified when community members interact with you and your photos; and if one of your photos makes it to Upcoming, Popular, or Editors’ Choice, you’ll be the first to know!
– Enjoy amazing photography surrounded by a beautiful interface made for iOS 7 with blur effects, transitions, and other details. We always put the photos first.
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - Microsoft Releases New QuizToWin App for iPhone
Microsoft has a released QuizToWin, a new real-time quiz application for the iPhone that lets users play on-line, independent of their physical location, with questions launched from a central CRM system.
Features:
? Players can follow in real-time their personal score and also view a real-time general leader board and friend’s only leader board.
? Players have also the possibility to receive notifications of events or a new upcoming quiz or questions.
? Players can invite their Facebook friends to play the quiz. Players can share their scores via Facebook or Twitter.
? Players have the possibility to view from where there friends are playing through a map option.You can download QuizToWin from the App Store for free.
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - Flappy Bird to Return in August with New Multiplayer Support
We knew Flappy Bird would fly again, but now according to the developer, we could expect the addictive game to make a return in August with multiplayer support!
For those of you that do not remember, Developer Dong Nguyen shocked users around the world when he tweeted that he was going to take down the game. “I am sorry ‘Flappy Bird’ users,” it read. “22 hours from now, I will take ‘Flappy Bird’ down. I cannot take this anymore.” Nguyen was pulling in $50,000 a day from advertising revenue because of the game before pulling it.
As promised, the game was removed hours later. Almost immediately, game developers rushed to fill the void with similar games such as Flappy Flyer, Flappy Wings, and others flooding the App Store.
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - Facebook App Gets Ability to Review Posts, Create Posts When Connection is Weak
The Facebook app has been updated with the ability to review posts; as well as, the ability to create posts when in Airplane mode or out of service.
Features:
• See what friends are up to
• Share updates, photos and videos
• Get notified when friends like and comment on your posts
• Text, chat and have group conversations
• Play games and use your favorite appsWhat’s New In This Version:
• Review what your post will look like and choose whether to remove any suggested links before sharing what you’re reading, watching or listening to
• Create posts even when your connection is weak or you’re in airplane mode, and they’ll be shared once your connection gets strong enough
• Improvements to make News Feed load faster, especially on older phones and tablets
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - Shazam App Gets Improved Result Page for TV, LINE Integration
The Shazam app for identifying music has been updated with a new result page for TV and easier access to music from the show.
Shazam is the best way to identify music and TV. In seconds you’ll know the name of any song, or more about what you’re watching – touch to Shazam to start your journey. Turn on Auto Shazam and we’ll keep finding music and TV even when you leave the app. Check out trending sounds from all around the world, and get new content daily from your favourite Shazamed artists.
Features:
• Preview and buy tracks on iTunes
• Sing along to the beat with real time lyrics
• Watch music videos on YouTube
• Share your discoveries on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Google+ and Pinterest
• Listen to full tracks with Rdio, Spotify or Deezer
• Connect to Rdio to create a playlist of your Shazamed tracks, or add tracks to any Rdio playlist
• See song recommendations from others like you
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - Facebook Testing Contextual Content Cards on iOS App
Facebook is testing a new feature in its iOS App — and this time its contextual content cards that appear after you share your recent activity. For instance, if you post a status saying you’re at Yosemite National Park, you will see a card popup of other friends’ photos at Yosemite National Park, or other friends who posted at Yosemite National park. The cards could respond to places you’ve been, music you’re listening to, friends you tag, and much more.
A new test on iOS surfaces related content cards including photos of restaurants you say you’re at, friends who’ve checked in where you did, photos of friends you check in with or mention in a status, and friends who listened to a song you just posted. The cards make News Feed feel alive.
The new feature is currently rolling out to a small subset of iOS users. You can see a screenshot below of an example of two different posts. For instance the card on the right could appear if you post a status saying you’re “watching Grand Budapest Hotel”. If you’re on the latest Facebook app, we can expect to see the changes sometime soon as the update is coming out OTA.
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - Humorous Texts Sent From Mom [Video]
BuzzFeed has compiled some humorous text messages sent from Moms into a video.
You can watch the video below. You might also want to check out some of these auto-correct fails: The 10 Funniest Auto Correct Love Fails, Top 25 iPhone Auto Correct Fails, The Funniest Auto Correct Texts of 2012.
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - Twelve South Unveils HoverBar 3 for iPad Air, iPad, iPad Mini
Twelve South has announced HoverBar 3, the next iteration of their flexible arm for the Apple iPad.
HoverBar 3 can be attached to the edge of a table, desk, bed frame, kitchen cabinet, right next to your Mac and any other surface up to one inch thick. The flexible arm attaches to surfaces using a sturdy, padded, easy-on/easy-off clamp. Once attached, HoverBar 3 holds all current iPad models for hands-free use. Bend the flexible metal arm to position your iPad for FaceTime collaborations, to create an instant workstation, for a DJ stand or as a secondary touchscreen computer. Half the fun of HoverBar 3 is discovering new ways to use and interact with your iPad.
“iPad can be so much more than a portable tablet – but the first thing you need to do is get it out of your hands,” said Andrew Green, Creative Director of Twelve South. “Using HoverBar in your kitchen, office or bedroom really transforms your iPad’s usefulness. Now with separate clips to fit iPad, iPad mini and iPad Air, just one HoverBar can hold everybody’s iPad in the house!”
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - Transition to '3x' Images for iPhone 6 Less Drastic Than Transition to '2x' Images for Retina Display
If Apple announces an iPhone 6 with a resolution of 1704×960 developers will need to update their apps with ‘3x’ images. However, MacRumors forum member pgiguere1 notes that ‘2x’ images on the iPhone 6 won’t look as bad as ‘1x’ images looked on the Retina display.
Unlike with the @1x -> @2x transition we had in 2010, this time we’d only have a 50% enlargement rather than 100%. The thing is, a 50% enlargement with interpolation doesn’t look worse than a 100% enlargement with pixel-doubling, despite the loss of details due to the interpolation…
As you can see, older non-@3x-optimized apps would actually look better on an @3x iPhone than non-@2x-opitmized apps did on an @2x iPhone. Add to this the fact that the screen’s pixel density would be higher this time around, and the perceived image quality difference would be even smaller.
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - Columbia Students Get iOS Apps Running on Android [Video]
Columbia University students have managed to get iOS apps running on Android by creating Cider, an operating system compatibility architecture that can run applications built for different mobile ecosystems.
Cider enhances the domestic operating system, Android, of a device with kernel-managed, per-thread personas to mimic the application binary interface of a foreign operating system, iOS, enabling it to run unmodified foreign binaries. This is accomplished using a novel combination of binary compatibility techniques including two new mechanisms: compile-time code adaptation, and diplomatic functions. Compile-time code adaptation enables existing unmodified foreign source code to be reused in the domestic kernel, reducing implementation effort required to support multiple binary interfaces for executing domestic and foreign applications. Diplomatic functions leverage per-thread personas, and allow foreign applications to use domestic libraries to access proprietary software and hardware interfaces.
Check out a demo video of Cider below. Notably, Android apps can still run on the device even with the OS abstraction layer. While app performance still needs improving, the project is promising. You can find the full research report here.
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - Automatic Partners With Jawbone to Integrate Driving Data Into Fitness App
Automatic and Jawbone have teamed up to give drivers insight into how their physical activity and driving patterns are connected.
If you’ve got Automatic and a Jawbone UP band, your drives can now appear in the UP app along with your physical activity. Miss your target step count for the day? Maybe it was because you spent more time than usual in the car. Tap on a drive and see how many steps you could have logged if you’d walked instead.
Automatic is a small dongle that wirelessly connects your car and your iPhone using Bluetooth Low Energy. The Jawbone UP wristband helps you collect data about your physical activity, sleep, and wellness.
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